Comments on: Tina, you fat lard, eat your cookies!

Question: Tina, you fat lard, eat your cookies!

santojulieta — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:09:00 -0800

What is the strangest, yet most delicious, cookie recipe you know?

As the only girl in my department, I feel it's my duty to provide a healthy dose of baked goodness on a semi-weekly basis to my coworkers. My boss is getting atonement cookies for having to work so long last week, and I need a really unique recipe for them. I wouldn't mind making a few different types, and I'm thinking about making some sort of chocolate & cayenne cookies for that added kick. What would you suggest?

By: PonderousPursuit

PonderousPursuit — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:13:02 -0800

One of my favorite recipes (gluten-free too!). Call it a 'hummus cake' and it'll really through them :-P

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1 (15-Ounce) can garbanzo beans (chickpeas), drained
4 eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Powdered sugar for dusting

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9-inch round cake pan with nonfat cooking spray. Cut a parchment paper circle large enough to cover bottom of pan and spray with nonfat spray. Set the pan aside.

Place garbanzo beans, eggs, and vanilla extract in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Process until completely blended and the beans are finely pureed.

In a medium-size bowl, combine all the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly until combined. Be sure that no lumps remain. Add dry ingredients to food processor and process for about 1 minute, or until completely blended.

Pour the cake batter into the sprayed and lined cake pan, and bake in the preheated oven for 50-55 minutes in a standard oven or 40 minutes in a convection oven, or until a sharp knife inserted in the center comes out clean or with only one or two little crumbs.

Remove from the oven and allow cake to cool for about 10 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate. Carefully remove paper from the top of the cake and allow the cake to cool completely. Dust with the powdered sugar, if desired.

By: Clambone

Clambone — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:19:04 -0800

Far and away the best cookie recipe I've ever made.

By: Juliet Banana

Juliet Banana — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:21:14 -0800

I am absolutely in love with these coconut shortbread cookies-they're incredibly light, crisp, and delicate, and the taste of butter and coconut really shine. They melt in your mouth.

I haven't made these gingered lemon bars, but they're certainly something a little different, and Simply Recipes is reliable.

By: Cool Papa Bell

Cool Papa Bell — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:22:57 -0800

The Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe comes in many flavors, including the official one, but this one is my favorite. The cookies are good, and plus, you get the added bonus of relating the story.

By: kitcat

kitcat — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:24:09 -0800

I'm sorry I don't have a recipe for you, but the most surprising cookie I've ever had was a lemon shortbread with lavender. It was delightful. Perhaps not so impressive to boys, but delightful.

By: jocelmeow

jocelmeow — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:59:09 -0800

Spicy Lithuanian "Mushroom" Cookies (mushroom-shaped, contains no actual mushroom!) are a honey-sweetened spice cookie redolent of cardamom, cloves, lemon and orange rind. Totally unique and delicious. They're also adorable-looking - their tops are dipped in a powdered-sugar icing and sprinkled with poppy seeds. My absolute favorite cookie.

By: julen

julen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:00:56 -0800

I made these Potato Chip Cookies for a Christmas Cookie Exchange this year and I won the Best Cookie award. These are super simple (note: the cookies are significantly better if you don't refrigerate the cookie dough and just make them all at once), and people love them.

By: runningwithscissors

runningwithscissors — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:03:37 -0800

Chocolate-bacon cookies
Crispy salted oatmeal white chocolate cookies
Austrian Raspberry Shortbread
Chocolate pretzel cookies
Margarita cookies
Seven-layer cookies
Carrot Oatmeal Cookies
Banana Chip Cookies
Pine Nut Rosemary Shortbread
Chocolate Peppermint Bark Cookies
Maya's Day of the Dead Cookies

By: zepheria

zepheria — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:17:17 -0800

These cheddar and cranberry cookies are terrific - I made logs of the dough and gave them (with baking instructions) as holiday gifts one year and they were well received.

By: ArgentCorvid

ArgentCorvid — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:17:36 -0800

Ketchup cookies.

I don't think the recipe is on the interwebs, though. I will dig in my pile of recipes, and post it later. They are delicious, and have a flavor somewhat similar to spice/carrot cake.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:20:46 -0800

I am partial to curry snaps which I have mentioned in AskMe before and now can't find the recipe for. They're basically a ginger snap recipe except with curry and they taste peppery and a little savory instead of the usual sweet. This recipe is likely close.

By: booknerd

booknerd — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:22:51 -0800

I don't know how weird they are, but I just ate one of the "Crispy salted oatmeal white chocolate cookies" that runningwithscissors linked to, and goddamn, they are so delicious. I don't like white chocolate so I made them with semisweet. I made 120 cookies of three different varieties over the weekend, and those oatmeal ones I just can't stop eating. I think I've eaten 20 of them myself since Friday. So, if you want to make a delicious and addictive cookie, make those.

By: degrees_of_freedom

degrees_of_freedom — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:26:03 -0800

I love this thread!

jocelmeow's mushroom cookies made me recall my mom's mushroom cookies (that also contain no mushrooms). They were the side cookies that accompanied the yule log at Christmas.
This sounds just like 'em: Meringue Mushroom Cookies
They take a long time to cook, but are so fun to eat (and assemble) that it's worth it.

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:49:16 -0800

Soft Chocolate Cookies with Grapefruit and Star Anise

By: Night_owl

Night_owl — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:53:36 -0800

My mom's flat oatmeal lace cookies.... they spread out really thin and can then be rolled up or dipped in chocolate or both or neither. The recipe she sent me fit in 3 text messages.

2 1/4 cups old fashioned oats
2 1/4 cups light brown sugar
3 tbsp flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 lb (2 sticks) melted butter
1 egg, beaten
1/2 tsp vanilla

Combine all dry ingredients. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir well. Drop by teaspoonfuls spacing well apart on a greased and floured cookie sheet. Bake at 325 for 15 minutes.

When you first take them out of the oven, they are malleable and can be bent or rolled as desired, but within a few minutes they will set.

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:32:41 -0800

My caramel apple bacon cookies got featured on GOOD MORNING AMERICA, so they're not just tasty, they're famous.

By: neuron

neuron — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:27:41 -0800

Skillet cookies are made with chopped dates, pecans and Rice Krispies. They are cooked in a skillet, shaped into balls, then rolled in shredded coconut.

By: bcwinters

bcwinters — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:51:27 -0800

Dorie Greenspan's World Peace Cookies...

"...for those of you who don't know them, are chocolate sables, French shortbreads, but, because they've got more brown sugar than white in them, they've got more chew than most shortbreads. They've also got a generous amount of dark chocolate chunks and enough fleur de sel, moist, coarse-grained French "finishing" salt (i.e., salt to be used in teensy quantities as a spice or condiment), to make them noticeably salty and completely addictive, in the way so many good things with salt are."

By: gingerbeer

gingerbeer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:26:47 -0800

These triple ginger cookies were a hit at one of the SF meetups. I've been known to toss in some garam masala. They'd also be good with a dash of cayenne, I would think.

By: Eddie Mars

Eddie Mars — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:44:41 -0800

Vinegar Cookes. Still my favorite. My family always topped them with a light, white glaze.
Pfeffernusse! Crunchy little wonderful things. I had to stop making them because I always ate half the batch.

By: sleslie

sleslie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:59:24 -0800

Old school celiac here, and these still amaze me. Where's the yeast?

Peanut Butter Cookies - 1 cup of peanut butter, 1/2 cup sugar and 1 egg, mix, roll into balls and press with a fork. Cook at 350 for 10 minutes

By: sleslie

sleslie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:06:37 -0800

oh, you have to use industrial peanut butter (the kind endorsed by cartoon squirrels or bears) for the emulsifiers and the xantham.

By: bad grammar

bad grammar — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:39:20 -0800

I second the mushroom cookies. My family (my mother is half Lithuanian) makes them every year at Christmas to reward our friends and overawe our enemies. We have to tell people there are no mushrooms in them! They are a lot of work. You need to trim the indentation in the cap after baking so that the stem will fit.

They also last indefinitely in the freezer.

By: magstheaxe

magstheaxe — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:07:13 -0800

@kitcat Was it this Lemon-Lavender Shortbread recipe? Food and Wine magazine published it back in 2002.

By: Deathalicious

Deathalicious — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:57:26 -0800

Sort of unusual: forgotten cookies. Certainly the most unusal instructions for cooking them ("turn the oven off"). I've made them without the chocolate bits and they're still excellent. If you're lucky, you'll get a variety of textures in different cookies. Some will be crunchy, some chewy, some crunchy on the outside and some chewy on the inside and some, if you are very, very lucky, will have a interior texture similar to marshmallow fluff.

By: SaharaRose

SaharaRose — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:25:45 -0800

seconding sleslie's recipe, with a few modifications:
Swap out half the peanut butter, in favor of Nutella.
1/4 cup of sugar instead of 1/2
1/4 cup (ish) of chocolate chips

It's like choco-peanut-decadence heaven!

Also noting- would love a name for these cookies, which I think I've invented. (Someone somewhere else on the Interwebs may have invented 'em too.)

By: fifilaru

fifilaru — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:38:21 -0800

NEOPOLITAN COOKIES

1 (7 oz.) pkg. almond paste
1 c. butter
1 c. sugar
4 lg. eggs, separated
1 tsp. almond extract
2 c. flour
Red and green food color
1/4 c. apricot preserves
1/4 c. seedless raspberry jam
6 oz. pkg. semi-sweet chocolate pieces

Grease bottom and sides of 9x13 baking dish. Line with wax paper and grease. In large bowl, beat almond paste, butter, sugar, egg yolks, and almond extract until fluffy. Stir in flour. In small bowl beat egg whites until soft peaks form; stir into almond paste mixture.

Place 1 1/3 cup of batter in each of 2 small bowls. Add red food color to one and green food color to the other. Spread red batter in prepared dish; bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Remove layer from pan with the wax paper. Repeat for white and green layers; cool completely.

Invert green layer, spread with raspberry jam; add white layer, spread with apricot preserves. Top with red layer. Cover; set heavy pan on top and refrigerate overnight.

Melt chocolate chips; spread over red layer. Trim edges. Cut crosswise into 1/2 inch strips; cut each into 4 pieces.

By: ArgentCorvid

ArgentCorvid — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:31:12 -0800

Ok, here are the Ketchup cookies. From Cookies for Kids

1/2 cup Butter (softened)
3/4 cup Brown Sugar
1 Egg
1/2 tsp Vanilla
2 Tbsp Ketchup
1 1/3 cup Flour
1/4 tsp Baking Soda
3/4 cup Raisins

Preheat Oven to 375°
Beat buttter and Brown Sugar together until fluffy
Beat in Egg, Vanilla, and Ketchup
Mix Flour and Baking Soda together, then mix into the rest
Mix in Raisins
Drop batter onto a greased cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes
Top with powdered sugar icing while still warm

Powdered Sugar Icing:
Mix 1 cup Powdered sugar and enough (3-4 Tbsp) milk to make liquid together in a small bowl.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:26:33 -0800

Chewy Chai Meringue Cookies

Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Meringues

Double Chocolate Meringues

Rice Krispie Treats

Kix Cookies

Wine cookies

Lace cookies

Fried Oreo Cookies

Peanut Butter, Bacon & Banana Cookies

By: for_serious

for_serious — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:43:09 -0800

I'm chiming in way late on this thread, but for posterity...

Cookies: Bizarre